Luquer Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Luquer Street and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Summit Academy Charter School is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Smith-9 Sts, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them schools, and 12 places to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1899 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Smith-9 Sts
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
1,260 feet
Mill St/Clinton St · B57, B61
Within a walk
14 places
5 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Luquer Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Smith-9 Sts, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Smith-9 Sts F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Carroll St F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mill St/Clinton St, 1,260 feet away, for the B57 and B61.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mill St/Clinton St B57, B61
    1,260 feet
    B57 B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …
  2. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & W 9 St 19 docks in all
    740 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at Woodhull Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1 Beard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11231
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
76
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    860 feet
  2. Summit Academy Charter School
    860 feet
  3. Brooklyn Collaborative Studies School
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. The Brooklyn New School, P.S. 146 School
    970 feet
  2. Pave Academy Charter School
    1,070 feet
  3. Strong Place for Hope Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  4. Cobble Hill Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Admiral Triangle Playground
    490 feet
  2. Dimattina Playground
    510 feet
  3. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mary Star of the Sea RC Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 120 West 9th Street Older adult center
    1,050 feet
  2. Red Hook East/Miccio Community Center
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 29 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Luquer Street.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.